ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,262, issued on April 7, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Light source system and method" was invented by Haim Feldman (Nof-Ayalon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source system is disclosed, the system comprises: a multimode laser unit; a first lenslet array positioned in a path of said laser beam and configured to form an array of focused spots in a selected plane downstream of said first lenslet array; a spatial filter mask carrying an array of pinholes positioned in said selected plane; a second lenslet array having spatial arrangement of lenslets similar to the first lenslet array an...